Shedules / Quantities - Family mirroed

[Anonymous]

How I can quantifies mirroed objects separate?
Ex.: I have to buy 500 bench of bathrooms. I used the mirror command in some and now I need to identify how many are with the
sink to the right and how many are to the left.
I have this problem with other objects like doors.How I can quantifies mirroed objects?
Ex.: I have to buy 500 bench of bathrooms. I used the mirror command in some and now I need to identify how many are with the
sink to the right and how many are to the left.
I have this problem with other objects like doors.

[ToanDN]

Determining Door Hand and Swing Direction in Revit Using Ideate Software

Dynamo Approach

Not personally tested.  May or may not work for other family categories.  

[Anonymous]

Thank you but I didn't get to do what I need yet.

[L.Maas]

In those kind of cases I do not use the mirror command. Quite often when mirroring you get a different object (has to be produced differently). That is probably why you want to schedule them separately.

I resolve this by creating the mirror inside the family. Depending on the requirements I can make a different family type or I create a boolean parameter (YES/NO) which will show/hide the mirrored object. In both cases I can schedule them when inserting those in a project.

It is only important to tell the users that mirroring is not allowed when mirrored objects are not the same.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much but, considering that 80% of my projects have standardized and similar units, I had the following problems:

. The production of the projects decreases a lot, therefore, most of the bathrooms are mirrored and, in some cases, I use group for the bathrooms and housing units;

. I can not guarantee that no architect has made the mistake of using the mirror command;

[Judy_S]

Hi, alexarantes8567!

Weclome to the Autodesk Community! I'm Judy, a Revit specialist. I saw your thread and had some thoughts to share with you. 

Ideally, I agree with Enlint that creating different types within the family (or even creating separate families) for Left and Right versions is preferable to mirroring. If you include "Left" or "Right" in the type name (or family name, depending on which way you go), users will have to make the appropriate choice when placing instances in the project. Using types (or separate families) with the Left or Right designation in the type or family name means that piece of data will always correspond to all instances of each type, leveraging the power of the information in a Revit model.

If you do not want to use separate types for Left and Right, your other option is to use an instance parameter to designate each instance as a Left or Right sink, and include that parameter in your schedules; however, THIS IS RISKY. It will be easy to type in the wrong word or to miss some instances, as the information needs to be applied manually to each instance in the project. Further, mistakes won't be obvious, and verifying accuracy of instance data for over 500 instances is a lot of work. This is a much riskier approach than types and I wouldn't recommend it. I'm including it here only because it sounds like you already have some projects that have used mirrored elements that need to be counted as Left or Right elements.

I hope this is helpful! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Cheers,

Judy_S

[Judy_S]

Hi, alexarantes8567,

Just wanted to check in with you to see if the ideas I posted were helpful or if you need further help. Let me know! I'll be happy to help if you have other questions. 

Have a good day!

Cheers,

Judy_S